Our client, the ‘go-to’ energy company are seeking a Technical Architect to join and lead their team.

The Technical Architect is responsible for ensuring that the design for assigned technical solutions is consistent with the Business & IS Strategy, industry best practice and the evolving systems roadmap. This covers internally developed solutions as well as solutions being provided by external suppliers. The Technical Architect contributes to defining viable business cases and value, propositions, ensuring solutions meet both near term and long term business and IS objectives. The Technical Architect identifies opportunities for innovation implementation options (technology, supplier, process) and delivering actionable solution architecture designs.

• Performance driven nature and strong interpersonal skills.• Excellent technical and problem solving capability.• Demonstrates strong business minded consultative approach with focus on profitability, margin & risk.• Strong experience in standard IS architectures, frameworks, processes.• Commercially minded, able to maximise value from existing and new technology & delivery partners.• A working knowledge of technical architecture disciplines (application, data or infrastructure).• A working knowledge of development processes including testing approaches and methods.• Effective communicator with the ability to adapt approach for technical and non-technical audiences. • Strong time management and the ability to work and lead to agreed priorities and deadlines. • An Understanding of Microsoft/Linux based technologies; any experience with the Oracle ERP and the Oracle Cloud stack and/or Salesforce would be desirable.• An understanding of transactional, analytical and NoSQL databases.• An understanding of web-service technologies and approaches, primarily focused around the REST paradigm, but also incorporating SOAP and other electronic interface technologies.• A strong focus on secure design• An understanding of Oracle/Linux/Salesforce. • A broad understand of Cloud based technologies and patterns, with an emphasis on AWS.

If you meet the above criteria for the Technical Architect role we would love to hear from you. Upload your CV for immediate consideration and please be assured that your CV will be treated with the strictest of confidence and not sent anywhere without your consent. For more information please contact Alex Barratt on 01223 463307.